Fwd: Re: [B-Greek] original Greek versus translation greek

Jonathan Robie jonathan.robie at datadirect-technologies.com
Mon May 19 15:06:41 EDT 2003


I was not thinking clearly this morning, and said something really stupid. 
Let me unsay it in this message....

>At 04:02 PM 5/18/2003 -0500, Michael Abernathy wrote:
>>Would you consider it likely that Paul was imitating the style of the 
>>Septuagint to impress on his readers that the subject matter was holy?
>
>I don't know the answers to most of your questions, but I do have an 
>opinion on this last. Paul has, in my opinion, imitated Septuagint Greek 
>in at least one other place - at the beginning of Luke. If you compare the 
>Greek in Luke 2 to the Greek in the end of Luke, or even more so to Acts, 
>I think that Luke 2 reads a lot more like parts of the Septuagint.

I believe Luke wrote Luke and Acts. At any rate, nobody I know seriously 
believes Paul did ;=>

>You might be able to establish some baseline statistics using that fact, 
>and compare 1 Thessalonians and some other Pauline letter - say, 
>Galatians? - to see how these other samples compare.

So this would be a comparison of two samples from Luke to two samples from 
Paul. Still, I think the comparison might be interesting.

Next time, I'll drink my coffee before posting, though ;->

Jonathan 




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